[TAS] Arcade Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me... "Santos" by Pepper-Color in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/6025M
TAS originally published on 2024-07-03
Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me... (トリオ・ザ・パンチ) is a rather bizarre beat em' up developed by Data East for the arcades. It later saw a port to the PlayStation 2 as part of an arcade compilation called Oretachi Gēsen Zoku. From what can be discerned, there doesn't appear to be any sort of coherent throughline connecting all the levels beyond jumping from one setting to another. You choose a character, go through a level, get some words on the screen, then move on to the next level. These levels often don't follow standard gameplay conventions, with bosses appearing at the start of some levels and certain levels having only a few enemies before the end-level boss.
For this run, Pepper-Color ( tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/P... ) chooses to play as tough guy Santos and uses his solid fist to ram through many unsavory things in order to beat the game as fast as possible.
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[@bassguitarbill]

My favorite speedrunning memory is, after spending about 30 hours awake, sitting in the front row for AGDQ 2019's Awful Games block, watching this masterpiece get played, and all of us doing the weird end-of-level arm pose every time.

[@MidnightWonko]

You have to do that weird end-of-level arm pose every time. It is the law.
Yeah, I remember watching the VOD of that after the fact. It looked amazing! ♥

[@SonNeoKaku]

A perfectly normal game with nothing strange happening 👍

[@UTNerd24]

W E E B L E S
F A L L
D O W N

[@Lightgod87]

Daruma ga Koron da!

[@alexandersichwardt3652]

A heater tank as a weapon, truly genius

[@djdexcat]

The iconic kusogē classic!

[@Snypor]

Imagine my bewilderment when I saw Colonel Sanders would appear as a boss in this game.

[@user-ne9zj3kd2l]

世界観、ストーリー、キャラクター、全てがよくわからないゲームだった

[@edward9487]

If you have no idea what is going on, neither do I.
Also, there's some recognizable motifs in the song that plays continuously throughout the game.

[@RADish-official]

Love how the fist level is just 2 enemies and a boss

[@musashigundoh]

LUCKY ! CHA CHA CHA

[@maxmouse713]

Truly incomprehensible and unforgetable!

[@solarflare9078]

The best game known to man

[@Boonehams]

y o !

[@SuperFitzieZX]

The final stage is just Santos beating up butterflies, a dog and a pigeon going into a birdbath. That’s the final boss

[@FernandoOliveira-qs1il]

This is epic

[@jerppursh7570]

This ost tho🕺🏾

[@pigfish99]

WIN WIN
I CURSE YOU

[@fatkart7641]

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Best. Ending. Ever.

1:41
And i thought the Ninja would be the faster character, seems that Santos it's the new fastest character once you max level the main attack.

[@pigfish99]

To be fair, the roulette system makes it hard to stay on W-fist, while kamakura (ninja) keeps their speed all game.
It's just that W-fist is so amazing.

[@OfficialChavis97]

shame I forgot him, even if they said not to

[@brazilian_oak]

Lucky!
Cha cha cha!

[@Sinistar1983]

Only in this game can you fight the KFC guy who turns into a chicken afterwards

[@PlNGP0NG]

6:28 The big head is a hoodoo doll in StarTropics 1 and a mashing mallet enemy is in StarTropics 2, though these games were published after this one. Is there some cultural significance to these enemies?

[@solarflare9078]

The mashing mallet guy is from another one of Data East’s games, Chelnov/Atomic Runner

[@doodoomode7370]

It's a dogu head the dogu are part of japanese mythology look them up on Google they are super interesting the date all the way back to 14000 b.c. so super old stuff

[@poonito5486]

.　 勝ち
呪ってやる

[@Jokerbuzzed]

KARNOV!

[@asdcolleton]

11:32

[@Monkey.D.DragoMateo121]

dab classic references fortnite😂